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Irene, I could one-up you on some of that. All over my house too. You're creative, it's normal for all of us. It only becomes an issue when one "stack" slides into another stack and so on and so on...and you are having "paperlanches" onto the floor.

I think I'm reaching that breaking point, Bob. But I hear ya. I once declared that I would keep my office clean for a solid week. (This was many, many years ago.) I ended spending _all_ week putting things away. Really, I don't know how neat people get anything done. ;-)

As a Felix married to an Oscar, I've come to the conclusion that it's simply neurological. You don't know how neat people get anything done. I have no idea how people like you get anything done. Amazingly enough, both of us get stuff done.

Patrick, I feel ya, man. I've lived with 'Oscar' roommates/lovers/family members forever, it makes for some ah... interesting living dynamics. They don't mind so much when I go into "I can't take it anymore!" cleaning-mode, though. Around my house, if it's Saturday, and Led Zeppelin's blastin' from the speakers, you'd better get out of my way, or you might get sucked into the vacuum cleaner.

True enough, Patrick and Pablo! :-) i was great friends with hyper-neat Jeff Dreyfuss and despite all my protests that I was perfectly happy in my space, I would often go sit in his office to clear my head and decompress.

Hey John -- Happy Holidays! Well, I got a bigger office since you left. The mess is more spread out.

I actually did throw away TONS of stuff this evening, right after that photo was taken. Sadly, it doesn't look much better yet. The worst of it is always within arms reach of my chair...To the point that, if I am missing anything I need to sit down to get the right perspective on the room.

I get into this bi-annual clean thing I do, but for the most part my desk and area is crammed full of stuff. I actually find it keeps me inspired to have art all around and supplies and what not, makes it feel homely.... of course I can't find anything when I need to.... Oh well.

My studio looked like that for a long time, but with the help of a few sales and some cheap furniture from Ikea I was able to get it organized. I still make stacks, but I do try to sort them from time to time.

As much as it felt counter to my creative nature, I actually got a lot of benefit from David Allen's Getting Things Done. For me it was a great way to get focused on the work I needed to do by getting those piles tucked neatly away with confidence that I knew where things went and what still needed to be done. I was able to focus on a painting or drawing by getting the piles out of sight. Otherwise, I would find myself sitting at the easel but looking past the canvas at a pile of sketches for something else and being distracted by thoughts of how I really needed to be working on that, too. I’m not sure if you’d get the same benefit from the book, but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Regardless of how you achieve it, I agree with what you said - a clean space is a great place to decompress.

Still, since it's not MY office, for me it seems like an exciting proposition to dig through the treasures that must be hiding in your office!

Well, I should say ('cause I got a few emails about it too) that the _only_ reason the paintings are on the floor is because I put in a 30 gallon fish tank. (Just out of frame in those pictures.) I didn't want the paintings to soak in any evaporating water. Phase two of the great biennale clean-up will be to re-hang all the paintings. It'll have to be salon-stlye, I'm afraid.

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